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No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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More quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston
For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.
Zora Neale Hurston
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
Zora Neale Hurston
She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
Zora Neale Hurston
We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.
Zora Neale Hurston
Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.
Zora Neale Hurston
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
Zora Neale Hurston
I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.
Zora Neale Hurston
...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.
Zora Neale Hurston
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
Zora Neale Hurston
Such as I am, I am a precious gift.
Zora Neale Hurston
Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
Zora Neale Hurston
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.
Zora Neale Hurston
Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
Zora Neale Hurston
Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
Zora Neale Hurston
